Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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